Something about the mix of sweet chocolate, sticky caramel, dense peanut butter nougat, and crunchy peanuts made me swoon. I still remember the house at 101 Pinewood Drive in our neighborhood that gave out the king size Snickers bars to every kid who came by on Halloween.

Bam! That big bar would hit the bottom of your plastic pumpkin. Then you'd have to center it, otherwise your pumpkin would lilt for the rest of the night. After you hit that house, it didn't matter how many Dum Dums or Tootsie Rolls you got. You had scored.

I'm not alone in my Snickers love. According to Wikipedia, "Snickers is the best selling candy bar of all time and has annual global sales of US $2 billion."

Well, they haven't made any money off of me in the last 15 years or so, which is the last time I had a Snickers bar. That is, until this past Saturday when I made Michelle's Snickers Cookies.

I needed a kid-loving cookie and figured Michelle (a mom of four) would know best. She does. When I took the first bite of a warm Snickers cookie, I audibly sighed. They're sweet and rich and studded with chewy melted Snickers chunks.

It brought me right back to my Wonder Woman costume and to 101 Pinewood Dr.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.

Combine the first six ingredients, and mix well with a hand mixer.Add the dry ingredients through the salt, and mix until well blended.Stir in Snickers pieces.

Roll small balls of cookie dough in your hands. If the dough sticks to the palms of your hands, run them hands under a little warm water and continue. Place cookies about 2 inches apart since they spread while baking. Makes approximately 35 cookies.

Bake for 11-13 minutes, or until golden brown and slightly puffy. If baking two trays of cookies at the same time, rotate the pans midway through so they bake evenly.

Speaking of Wonder Woman, if you're not familiar with Michelle's blog Scribbit, then do yourself a favor and start visiting her. She is one the first bloggers I ever made contact with, and I've become a loyal reader.

56 comments:

Wow - I've never heard of a Snicker's cookie...but how could you go wrong...a cookie and a chocolate bar in one?!

Many years ago at a friends' house, my friend's mom was making some kind of cake that required a large amount of chocolate bars - Milky Way? perhaps...again how could you go wrong with that combination.

Wow, that's so decadent! :) I especially love the shot where the caramel gets all stretchy. It's a great way to get rid of all these candy bars in the fridge! (Well, I could eat them straight away, but I would become morbidly obese)

These look yummy! I've always loved snickers, but I had no idea they were so popular. If asked to guess, I would probably have picked Mars as most popular (I don't like them, but everyone else seems to). Of course, it's only recently I finally gave in and started calling them snickers. Growing up in the UK they were called Marathons. The name changed at least a decade ago, but many of us diehards still stubbornly use the old name ;)

Oh you're so sweet! Thanks for such nice words--don't tell anyone I'm still lounging in bed, blogging away while I sent the kids to get their own breakfast this morning--so much for super mom :)

Those cookies really are great, my college room mate and I used to make up a plate whenever we were trying to impress a guy, they worked like magic. A suggestion? They're best warm so if they've cooled, nuke them for a couple seconds and get out the milk.

My kids like eating them on a popsicle stick--just insert one before baking.

oh my gosh. next you'll be making candy corn cookies. i was never that into the chocolate-covered candy bars when i was little, but i've since realized the error of my ways. sometimes i get snickers bars for the extra protein from the peanuts. then i think to myself, um, seriously?!?

I can't believe you went 15 years without a Snickers bar. I've decided that the only possible explanation (because nobody who liked Snickers that much as a kid simply gives them up cold turkey) is that you are actually now a pod person. I think I should tell Jeff. And your parents. And maybe those people on X-Files. This is pretty serious.

I like Snickers, too, but am hard pressed to distinguish them from some other candy bars; so many of them are chocolate, caramel & peanuts w/ or w/out nougat. I think Mars has the monopoly on them, too.

Look good -- it'll be tough to sacrifice a Snicker's bar, but these cookies seem to be a worthy cause. I too had a home in the neighborhood with the big sized bars, but unfortunately my mother never allowed me a Wonder Woman costume *sigh*. Thanks for sharing this recipe!